Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: Playing In The Rubble
I am a communist. I note that short term pain is code for something is going to be removed. For the disabled, it will mean food. It will mean medications. I know that is not what you want to hear. But the measuring itself is an institution of massive variables.…
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Tim Barrus: Save When By Fits
Controversy is a pathfinder of trouble, and at times in your face honesty, humor, pathos, and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of life itself that shatters assumptions, unsettles easy presumptions, and yet, while we walk through our day-to-day existence, the sheer gravitas of everything around us in our ordinary vision…
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Tim Barrus: Other Circumstances
I have copyright of this novel. – Tim Barrus
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Tim Barrus: Tyranny
The Gods Were Cruel Little Tyrants – Tim Barrus
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Tim Barrus: The Dark King
I am a communist. The issue is class and caste. The capitalists love putting their wealth in everyone’s face. The old adage – the poor want to be rich, too – is showing cracks in the facade. Americans cannot afford the lives they are living. There is fuel to this…
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Tim Barrus: Burying America
I am a communist. A call for courage. Americans can get caught up in the terror of that knock on the door. In reality, they’re not knocking on doors. They’re breaking them down. We will come for you while you sleep. We will take your children, and tear up your…
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Capitalism Has Failed
I am a communist. Marx got it right: “There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.” How do you measure misery. When I am writing in foreign countries, I like to go visit grocery stores. I go…
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WHY IS THE CULTURE SEEKING WORTH AND VALIDATION
tim barrus I am a communist. So what is all this stuff about how you can save the system. Even the word – system – is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole. You are articulating informed theory that people might behave one way or…
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The Deviant Will Kill Us All
I am a communist. The deviant wants to kill us all. But Americans do not believe it. Brooks is not alone. The pessimism he seems to struggle with isn’t pessimism, it’s reality. The dividing line between suicide and homicide is razor thin. Rapist psychodynamic traits emerge as an overly assaultive,…
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Tim Barrus Americans Shiver in Their Pathetic Shoes
I am a communist. “And Respond.” Americans have never responded. They ruminate, and then they bend the knee. If North Korea invaded us, would you respond. No. It’s football night. You can go with Miss Timid. You will crawl at the Deviant’s feet. You can go with a polite note…